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On his third album, Rainbow Doll, the New Jersey house mystic Joey Anderson speaks to us. Of course, like everything Anderson does, the message is encoded. On tracks like "Beside Me" and "Cindy", his voice rings out in dream incantations -- on the latter, he repeats a Mark Hollis-like mantra over a perfect, minimalist house loop while the former sounds like the late, great Ron Hardy taking the razor-and-tape to Ike Yard. It's his third record for the Berlin-based label Avenue 66, and graciously illuminates the dream logic introduced on his debut for the imprint, the 2013 leftfield classic Above The Cherry Moon. While Rainbow Doll satisfies those outer impulses, the album's core comprises what are perhaps Anderson's most indelible dance tracks to date, like "Bounce With It", a jacking anthem which sees him at mission control, sending widescreen synth lines soaring through the atmosphere. With the aforementioned vocals punctuating five of the eight tracks, Rainbow Doll is Anderson's most personal work to date. It's his first album since 2015, but also his shortest, most concise full-length. Even with a more direct approach, the elusive, dreamlike quality which has made his work so intriguing remains intact. He speaks of dreams throughout the record, even as his uncanny methodology comes into focus. More than ever before, you will understand the materials Anderson uses to construct his Escher-like tracks. You hear his fingers on the keys, the sturdy east coast house beats he learned to dance to. The dreams have become lucid. As he puts it deep in the album, they "seem so real".
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AVE66 003EP
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New Jersey house mystic Joey Anderson returns to Avenue 66 after inaugurating the Acid Test imprint in 2013 with the modern psych-dance masterpiece Above The Cherry Moon. Here, Anderson's "If One Cares, They Act Different" works with a lead that could score an unsettling '80s horror flick before eventually introducing Anderson's signature quicksilver synths and abstract, jacking drum patterns. "Peace There" takes the listener far out with square-wave basslines and raspy hats. On "The Vase," Anderson reins things in, but even his bittersweet, relatively straight-head deep house tracks present an odd paradox.
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DKMNTL 029LP
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Double LP version. The art of omission is a craft New Jersey native Joey Anderson masters like few others. After releasing his acclaimed debut album After Forever in 2014 (DKMNTL 017CD) and the 1974 EP in 2015 (DKMNTL 023EP), Anderson returns to the Dekmantel label, serving up the signature sound for which he's beloved. Invisible Switch is the perfect example of what Anderson can do with very little, catapulting him to his place as one of the finest and most original techno and house producers to date.
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DKMNTL 029CD
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The art of omission is a craft New Jersey native Joey Anderson masters like few others. After releasing his acclaimed debut album After Forever in 2014 (DKMNTL 017CD) and the 1974 EP in 2015 (DKMNTL 023EP), Anderson returns to the Dekmantel label, serving up the signature sound for which he's beloved. Invisible Switch is the perfect example of what Anderson can do with very little, catapulting him to his place as one of the finest and most original techno and house producers to date. CD includes three extra tracks.
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DKMNTL 023EP
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The art of omission is a craft New Jersey native Joey Anderson masters like few others. After releasing an acclaimed debut album in 2014 (DKMNTL 017CD/LP), Anderson returns to the Dekmantel label serving up his beloved signature sound. With 1974, he continues his modern-day techno odyssey, investigating the outskirts of the genre while focusing on details and unexpected twists. Serving up dense melodic structures, intense chord progressions, and unique but relentless drum programming and sounds, Anderson shows that the future of techno is bright, original, and full of energy.
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DKMNTL 017CD
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Dekmantel release the debut full-length album from New Jersey producer, DJ and Inimeg Records boss Joey Anderson. Entitled After Forever, the album is the natural next step for a producer who has turned out plenty of deep and intriguing techno EPs for labels like Latency, Deconstruct Music and Syncrophone. Having been championed by the likes of Levon Vincent and DJ Qu before the rest of the world cottoned on, Anderson's style has proved to be truly idiosyncratic, where near bottomless techno grooves get run through with haunted piano lines, shadowy synth-work or elegant drones. There are barely ever any claps or snares; instead, just plenty of deeply hypnotic kicks and plenty of noir tension. As well as two tracks that were released on Anderson's previous Dekmantel EP, the album offers nine new cuts and kicks off with "Space Between Curtains." Haunting, saddened piano keys linger in the air above metallic synth sounds for the emotive duration of the track. Then there's the teary-eyed, end-of-the-world yet optimistic vibe of "Space Colors Ideas." After that, various intimate moods are explored, from heavy and ominous on "Maidens Response" to celestial and cautiously uplifting on "Archer's Ceremony" via "Amp Me Up," which sees Anderson's spacious and atmospheric style suck you in with its weird, gurgling machine noises unraveling above an unchanging drum track. It's an album that demands and indeed warrants close inspection, and is the sort of work that really transports you deep into another world far away from here. With After Forever, then, Joey Anderson confirms he crafts moody and atmospheric techno like few others.
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DKMNTL 015EP
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Few producers have caused quite the stir that Joey Anderson has in 2013. The New York DJ and producer has turned out a steady stream of dark, shadowy, and deep techno EPs on labels such as Latency, Inimeg, and Syncrophone, but now steps up to Dutch label Dekmantel with an offering ahead of his debut full-length in 2014. It features three new tracks of moody stuff for the darkest dancefloors out there.
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